Published July 22, 2025 | Version v1

AI Assisted Literature Reviews Course

Description

The course covers how to use a self-hosted open-source AI LLM RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) assisted literature review system with supporting user learning material. The system is for: using open access literature repositories; is based on open science (open scholarship) principles; is globally equitable, inclusive, and multilingual, and; is independent of commercial providers.

Repo and info | Discussion and support: Full course details, Jupyter Notebooks, presentations, and videos. The course videos are three hours in total.

Course units are:

  1. Corpus creation: Open Access repository retreival and analysis
  2. Vibe coding: Coding with an AI assistant — Corpus creation
  3. PDF summarisation
  4. Image classification
  5. Image extraction
  6. Named entity recognition (NER): Entities and concepts
  7. LLM and RAG: For PDF and HTML

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Additional details

Additional titles

Subtitle (English)
Using Globally Equitable AI LLMs on Open Access Research Literature Repositories

Software

Programming language
Python